> By the way, Unicode is just a number -> glyph mapping, it doesn't say > anything about the representation of that number in the byte stream. > UTF-8 and UTF-16 are such representation specifications. > > The encoding name in PostgreSQL should be changed from UNICODE to UTF-8 > because UNICODE really just isn't an encoding.
Actually you can use "UTF-8" instead of "UNICODE" when using PostgreSQL. However the "primary" name is still UNICODE, and I agree it's better to change to UTF-8 for the primary name. Maybe for 7.5? -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match